The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-11-17
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TnERE are said 10 bo Gi9 widows, BY &C,
iuRl count in ooerlln, o..
DE LEssErs says the Panama Canal VIII
be opened February 8, 1880.
CtosE-rmMMED boards are being much
worn ON Now York youths.
THE Grant monument fund In New York
has been swollcd TO S5,54S.6l,
GESERlL BouLiSGER's mother was a
Welsh woman named GrinlthA
'rnE public schools OF tho United States
give employment 70 a9O,0OO teachers.
a SlbO0,0O firoproof theatnr IL tots.
place Madison Square Garden, Now York.
FRNcEss BEATmCKs baby is tho first
child Of royalty born IN Scotland since
IOa
ALnERr MrS0RR is tho wealthicst bache
. ior Ia Chicago aud has hn annual income
Of t500 OOO
TnSHE Is talk OF putting General Banks
n, the bend OF the National Soldiers Home
atIogus, Me,
A RUSSIAN young lady has been con.
dcmned 10 life.lohg Imprisonment for mar.
ryiug sixteen husbands
Mns, SACns, tho 81 Louis cook who
ihrew the pancakea al Mrs. Cleveland, is on
exhibition In dime museum.
A MONUMENT isabput 10 DO erected In
Savannah, Ga, 10 the memory OF Sergeant
Jasper, Of revolutionary fame
TuE iatest name for the theator-goer who
Is constantly going out aud stopping on
everybodN's toes is . gadwump.
L,h0r quantities OF Iron orc are being
shipped from Missouri 10 tennessee aud
Alabama 1t maacs palpable mixture.
Gronor FiANcis TRAIS says he win quit
this country and hereafter 1.-Two In Canada
ifthe condcmnen Anarchists are executed
Az lthilan astronomer announces as the
result OF recent Investigation that the veg
citation ON the plane, Mars ia bright red Ia
color.
1nE largest block Of Barre (vLl granite
ever quarricd weighs iifty tons. 1t took
twenty days 10 hgdl 1t four miles on
roli0rs.
II is stated that the smokestack 81 the
Allentown thread mill. ~ feet high, VIII,
when finished bo the loftiesl in the United
States.
JouN O ESQ, the New York bank wreck.
or. has been buying property in Quebec,
evidently with the intention OF settling
down thcre.
SSkKrs siS feet long with bright red
rings around their necks arc reported TO
have been. seen recently ON farm near
Decatur, Ill
SEVEN thousand hyo hundred bushels Of
chos,uuts were handled by the American
Express Company at Bradford, Pa, one
day recently,
IT took n gang Of Colorado thieves one
hour 20 rob the passengers on Denver
and Rio Grande train. Such dilatoriness
isdisgrncofuL
rouSd man who bad been compelled
20 marry girl at jamestown, n. Y, shot
himself through the head as soon as tho
ceremony was concluded.
a nAmI school has just been opened
on the Hougbton farm, Orange County, \.
y, which gives practical instruction in
dairy farming for q nominal sum.
FAcTom sites are ia great demand in
many small towns In Illinois and Missouri.
Skilled labor in those States viii be pretty
busily employed throughout the winter.
II. 7. sASToRp, tho twelfth juror in the
Anarchist trial, and now u rosident Of st
Paul has received several letters lately
threatening his life, and goes constantly
armed
WOMEN who can play the fiddle are al
the rage In. Boston The Hub folks now
frown on the banjo, and the squeak OF I'll,
catgut is heard in the houses OF the ex
clusivos.
HESRr wA1ERsoS declares that "the gir
who does not expect some time or other t'
get husband and nurse baby ought t.
bc thrown in her infancy into the nearcs
frog pond
GoysnNoR OGLEspY, Of Illinois, was I
carpenter in early life, afterwards becom
ing lawyer. He fought in tho Mexican
war, and was one of the California golo
diggers OF 40
Tnl carriage which was made especially
for the use Of Lafayette, during his yisi
10 this country in 1924, is owned in Chica
go. II isa quaint old ark hung on biz
springs and wide straps.
Ex-GovERSoR ALGEit Of Michigan, ride
about the country in private car, and sci
dom spends more than seven days in on
place. He makes his car his business Office
and does 81 100000 worth Of trado in it an
nually.
TnE English Church receives in titho
apOuN SeuinuusVVV year. vi hHls hh'ouil
s5OOO,O coo is expended in hospitals, schools
church buildings, etc, and the remaiuini
sl5,0OO,0OO goes to pay the salaries of th'
clergy.
PERHAPS the most lucrative office In tt
National Government, next TO tho Presi
dency itself is the cerkship of the Su
preme Court at Washington. 1t yields Al
annual income Of fees of from s25, 600 :.
$4,000
DIVISION OF labor has been carried I.
such perfection in this country that 1t |
now possible to mako u complete reapa
every fifteen minutes, locomotive in
day and three hundred watches in tn
gnnc time.
TuE Prince of Wales has the credit O
making every effort 10 ingratiate himsel
Into the favor OF his royal mammu, and
like the gallant Englshmau that he Is
writes TO her daily when he is away fror
the shadow Of her parental wing.
A GRrESsBuRG CPa.) woman accompar
led her intended husband to the clerks o.
flee the other day to take out marriag
license and from her answers TO the GU
tomary questions IL transplred that he
fret husband had been dead less than inl
ty-eight hours.
THOMAS OWENS, carpenter who To-
from the roof OF building and was killc
nj Pittsburgh, few days ago, IS said
be The 'sUnknown'i who threw tho fst'
bomb at tho Chicago HaymarlSet riot. b.
foro his death he confessed TO his employe
that his b I'd had thrown tha deadly dyn'